Computer Quotes · Page 27

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

— William Friedkin

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

— Christian Marclay

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

— Viswanathan Anand

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

— James Chiles

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

— Larry Wall

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

— Lord Mountbatten

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

— Marc Andreessen

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

— Larry Wall

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a…

— Robert David Steele

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening…

— Edward Snowden

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of…

— Linus Torvalds

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to…

— Donald Knuth

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong…

— Ward Cunningham

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

— Mikko Hypponen

In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become…

— Michio Kaku

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power,…

— Steve Wozniak

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office…

— Tom Peters

I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether…

— Keira Knightley

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make…

— Sam Worthington

Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an…

— Franklin Foer

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation…

— Michael Bierut

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

— Temple Grandin

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning…

— Matt Blaze

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking…

— Mark Weiser

I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting.

— Willis Earl Beal

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ”

— Benjamin R. Smith

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

— Alan Turing

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

— Edward Yourdon

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself…

— Ricky Gervais

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

— Pharrell Williams

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

— Maira Kalman

We need to inspire kids to take notice of how and why a computer works. It's the marriage of art and science.

— Will I Am

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

— Robert Bringhurst

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold